DS Eurovision Prediction Game - Lisbon 2018

Well it's that time of year already... National Finals are done, internal selections have been chosen and we have a fantastic and very varied 43 songs representing their countries heading to Lisbon. The annual fun of Best of the NF Rejects has concluded and the first day of rehearsals has kicked us off with a bang. It could only mean one thing... it's time for the annual predictions game!

Unlike last year it'll all be in the one thread. Also, as i'm actually going to be flying out to Lisbon on the Monday I won't be able to do an immediate turn around on the results but I imagine I'll have time on the Weds/Thurs morning once I am too hungover to move in my hotel room.

How it works...

There will be 3 rounds and a total of 100 points on offer. You can participate in as many or as few as you want but obviously I'll be adding up the total scores when i'm back home on Monday 14th May so if you don't enter them all then you are unlikely to be crowned the winner.

ROUND ONE - SEMI FINAL ONE PREDICTIONS
All you have to do is predict which 10 countries performing in Semi Final One will qualify through to the final. For a bonus point predict who you think will win the Semi Final.

Deadline: 8pm Tuesday 8th May (start of live semi final one show transmission)

ROUND TWO - SEMI FINAL TWO PREDICTIONS
All you have to do is predict which 10 countries performing in Semi Final Two will qualify through to the final. For a bonus point predict who you think will win the Semi Final.

Deadline: 8pm Thursday 10th May (start of live semi final one show transmission)

ROUND THREE - FINAL PREDICTIONS
A practically impossible challenge but it was quite fun last year to see how everybody did and how wild some of our predictions were so I figured i'd repeat it without the minus points

If you get the placement EXACTLY correct = 3 points
If you get the placement 3 away = 2 point
If you get the placement 5 away = 1 point

Countries performing in the Final:

France
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
+ 20 qualifiers

My wonderful co-host @thengp12 will be formally opening this on the Thursday evening after SF2 but the deadline will be 8pm Saturday 12th May (start of live final show transmission)

Happy predicting everybody - let me know if you have any questions.

As i'm flying back late on the Sunday the final results will be posted on the evening ofMonday 14th May